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moment all the warriors are embarked, the canoes 

 fail to a little diftance, keeping clofe together in one 

 line ; then the chief rifes, holding in his hand his 

 chichicoue, and fings aloud his own war-fong, to 

 which his foldiers made anfwer by a treble he! 

 fetched from the bottom of their breafts. The el- 

 ders and chiefs of the council who have remained on 

 the banks, then exhort the warriors to do their duty, 

 and above all to beware of being furprifed. This 

 is, of all the advices which can be given an Indian, 

 the mo ft necefTary, and that, by which they gene- 

 rally profit lead". This admonition, however, in- 

 terrupts not the chief who continues to fmg all the 

 while. Laftly, the warriours conjure their relations 

 and friends, to remember them continually, and 

 then raifing the moil horrid fhotits or howlings all 

 together, they immediately fet out with fo much ce- 

 lerity, that they are inftantly out of fight. 



The Hurons and Iroquois make no ufe of the 

 chichicoue, but give them to their prifoners, fo that 

 this which with other Indians is a warlike inftru- 

 ment, feems with them a mark or badge of da very. 

 The warriors never make fhort marches, efpecially 

 when in large bodies ; moreover, they conftrue every 

 thing that happens into an omen, and the jugglers, 

 whofe function it is to explain them, haften or retard 

 their marches atpleafure. Whilft they are in a country 

 where they have no fufpicion of an enemy, they 

 ufe no manner of precaution, and fometimes there 

 are fcarce half a dozen warriors together, the reft 

 being difperfed up and down a hunting. But let 

 them be at ever fo great a diftance from the rout, 

 they are fure to be at the place of rendezvous at the 

 hour appointed. 



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